xx, 572 pages : 23 cm

"Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. Major Problems in American Women's History is the leading reader for courses on the history of American women, covering the subject's entire chronological span. While attentive to the roles of women and the details of women's lives, the authors are especially concerned with issues of historical interpretation and historiography"--Publisher description

Includes bibliographical references

Doing American women's history. Essays. A personal history of women's history / Estelle B. Freedman ; "Ongoing missionary labor" : a conversation on Chicana studies/history / Vicki L. Ruiz, Leisa D. Meyer ; Black women historians and black women's history / Mia Bay ; Taking over or just undertaking? A quantitative overview of American women's history / Sharon Block -- European-Native American cultural contact. Documents ; Essays. Kateri Tekakwitha : Native American women and Christianity / Nancy Shoemaker ; Mary Musgrove and the sexual politics of race and gender in Georgia / Michele Gillespie ; Indian captivity and family life in colonial New England / Ann Little -- Economic roles in Early America. Documents ; Essays. Women's work in colonial Philadelphia / Karin Wulf ; African women's influence on rice cultivation / Judith Carney ; Women's work in California's Spanish missions / Virginia Marie Bouvier -- Marriage, sexuality, and family in Colonial America. Documents ; Essays. Abortion and gender relations in eighteenth-century New England / Cornelia Hughes Dayton ; Indians' marital and intercultural relationships in colonial Louisiana / Kathleen DuVal -- Personal and public politics in an age of revolution. Documents ; Essays. Women, property, and voting rights in eighteenth-century Virginia / John G. Kolp, Terri L. Snyder ; The mixed legacy of the American Revolution for black women / Jacqueline Jones -- Sexuality, rights, and activism in a new nation. Documents ; Essays. An erotic friendship between two African American women / Karen V. Hansen ; Ordinary women in the antislavery movement / Julie Roy Jeffrey -- Antebellum race and slavery. Documents ; Essays. Enslaved women, truancy, and everyday resistance in the plantation South / Stephanie M.H. Camp ; The narrative of Nancy, a Cherokee woman / Tiya Miles ; Eunice Connolly : a transnational family story of race and womanhood / Martha Hodes -- The Civil War and its aftermath. Documents ; Essays. Domesticity under siege in the Union states / Nina Silber ; How southern black women during Reconstruction claimed citizenship by testifying to violence / Hanna Rosen -- The trans-Mississippi frontier West. Documents ; Essays. Chinese women in nineteenth-century San Francisco / Judy Yung ; Native men, white women, and marriage in the Indian Service / Cathleen D. Cahill -- Paid employment, workplace rights, and modern consumerism, 1880-1930. Documents ; Essays. Everyday colonialism : indigenous women at work in the hop fields and tourist industry of Puget Sound / Paige Raibmon ; Black women and work : A'Leila Walker and the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company / Kate Dossett -- Activism and political differences, 1890-1930. Documents ; Essays. Black women and nation-making / Deboray Gray White ; Women in the 1920s' Ku Klux Klan / Kathleen M. Blee -- Hardship, relief, and citizenship in the Great Depression and New Deal. Documents ; Essays. Women, birth control, and the marketplace in the 1930s / Andrea Tone ; The Tampa Sewing-room Strike of 1937 and the right to welfare / Elna C. Green -- Gender, race, and sexuality during World War II. Documents ; Essays. African American women, citizenship, and workplace democracy during World War II / Megan Taylor Shockley ; Japanese American women during World War II / Valerie Matsumoto ; Mexican American young women and the "Pachuca Panic" in World War II Los Angeles / Elizabeth R. Escobedo -- The feminine ideal and its challenges in postwar America. Documents ; Essays. Competing images of women in postwar mass culture / Joanne Meyerowitz ; Lesbian pulp novels and U.S. lesbian identity, 1950-1965 / Yvonne Keller -- Resurgent activism, 1960 to 1990. Documents ; Essays. Crossing the border for abortions in the 1960s / Leslie J. Reagan ; Women, motherhood, and welfare rights in Washington, D.C. ; Anne M. Valk -- Gender, identity, and cultural conflict since 1990. Documents ; Essays. What is third-wave feminism? / R. Claire Snyder ; Multicultural female violence and justice on the urban frontier / Brenda E. Stevenson

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